I am an android noob

[Guest JimJam707]

Can someone just give me a quick heads up?

[Guest gregDT]

Can someone just give me a quick heads up?

Rooting is the process of gaining root privileges on an Android mobile phone. Once root has been obtained a user can install custom versions of the Android operating system, otherwise known as ROM's. Custom ROM's offer additional features not available in the stock ROM's supplied with the phone. Also 3rd party ROM's can offer newer versions of Android not offered by the manufacturer i.e there are custom Android 2.1 ROM's for the HTC Hero, although HTC only sell the phone with Android 1.5 installed.

Custom ROM's may also come with bugs and problems, meaning they are mostly in beta and being continuously worked on and improved.

[Guest JimJam707]

Rooting is the process of gaining root privileges on an Android mobile phone. Once root has been obtained a user can install custom versions of the Android operating system, otherwise known as ROM's. Custom ROM's offer additional features not available in the stock ROM's supplied with the phone. Also 3rd party ROM's can offer newer versions of Android not offered by the manufacturer i.e there are custom Android 2.1 ROM's for the HTC Hero, although HTC only sell the phone with Android 1.5 installed.

Custom ROM's may also come with bugs and problems, meaning they are mostly in beta and being continuously worked on and improved.

Thank you mate.

[Guest roscoe141]

thanks for the info

[Guest roscoe141]

Rooting is the process of gaining root privileges on an Android mobile phone. Once root has been obtained a user can install custom versions of the Android operating system, otherwise known as ROM's. Custom ROM's offer additional features not available in the stock ROM's supplied with the phone. Also 3rd party ROM's can offer newer versions of Android not offered by the manufacturer i.e there are custom Android 2.1 ROM's for the HTC Hero, although HTC only sell the phone with Android 1.5 installed.

Custom ROM's may also come with bugs and problems, meaning they are mostly in beta and being continuously worked on and improved.

Does rooting also mean you can install stuff on the external SD micro card or am I getting my wires crossed? ;)

[Guest grilledmonkey]

Does rooting also mean you can install stuff on the external SD micro card or am I getting my wires crossed? ;)

yep, search app2sd

Edited April 16, 2010 by grilledmonkey

[Guest lostsoulz]

After rooting can we 'unroot' it back?

[Guest roscoe141]

After rooting can we 'unroot' it back?

According to Paul on another post, yes. And your warranty should not be void.

[Guest evil_lcf]

hi, can i add a couple of questions as well? :huh: i have a legend and i find annoying not able to personalize it as i did with my nokias. after rooting the device, can i change fonts, change name of the app in the menù, create folders in the main menù to better organize it, save sms in the sd (since i understood it saves in the phone now) ? thank you

[Guest brighterthnsun]

Rooting is the process of gaining root privileges on an Android mobile phone. Once root has been obtained a user can install custom versions of the Android operating system, otherwise known as ROM's. Custom ROM's offer additional features not available in the stock ROM's supplied with the phone. Also 3rd party ROM's can offer newer versions of Android not offered by the manufacturer i.e there are custom Android 2.1 ROM's for the HTC Hero, although HTC only sell the phone with Android 1.5 installed.

Custom ROM's may also come with bugs and problems, meaning they are mostly in beta and being continuously worked on and improved.

Thanks for the info...

[Guest roscoe141]

Is there any real need to root and rom it? With Andriod 2.2 (Froyo) soon to be released this will allow us to install apps to the SD card..

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-co...-to-know-689101